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Re: Has anyone tried BeeWeaver's Buckfast queens?

I have two 3 lb packages from there, April 2012. They both are working well, now into the 2rd super. Calm, no mites or shb ( from casual inspection).My other hive is a 3 lb package from CA. Very slow, looking for a new queen now. In truth one BWeaver package was mishandled by them, the post office or me, 2/3 dead bees. It was replaced promptly at no charge. Would highly recommend them. for BWeaver.

Re: Has anyone tried BeeWeaver's Buckfast queens?

BeeWeaver has intergrated their buckfasts into their BeeWeaver breed. R.Weaver carries what is called a buckfast.
They even consider it a subtype of buckfasts, because they haven't had any new influx of buckfast blood in years.
An R.Weaver buckfast so to say. According to Clint W.

Re: Has anyone tried BeeWeaver's Buckfast queens?

Benjamin,

I ordered 5 queens from them in July and made some splits with them to try them out. They have built up very fast. Three of them are in 5 frame nucs double stacked. The other two have been switched to 10 frame deep boxes with a second box added. The temperment has been pretty good. Sometimes I don't use smoke on them depends on weather. BWeaver was great to deal with. If they over winter good here in northern Wisconsin I will order more next year.

Re: Has anyone tried BeeWeaver's Buckfast queens?

Believe it's one for anything. But not very cost effective for cells since they are shipped overnight UPS and it's pretty costly. If you're going to order mated queens get your order in early, he fills up quickly

Re: Has anyone tried BeeWeaver's Buckfast queens?

Originally Posted by Michael Palmer

If you buy "Buckfast" stock from Ferguson in Ontario, you'll have bees that are closer to actual Buckfast than the Texas variety.

I imported 10 queens from Ferguson in late July, which I have created my nucs with. So far, they seem really great. I have some booming nucs. Bill and his family have been very good to deal with as well.

Re: Has anyone tried BeeWeaver's Buckfast queens?

Ben, I installed two Rweaver Buckfast queens about six weeks ago. About two weeks ago, one of the Buckfast queens flew out of my hand while I was marking her and the other is doing about as well as my home grown queen from my Italian/Carniolan queen, open mated with the drones in my area (that means she is doing well). I've installed two queens from BeewWeaver this past week. Both Weavers were fine to deal with and the shipping was quick.

The Buckfast queens have not so far produced overly defensive bees, I work them with smoke, a jacket, shorts and bare hands. The Weaver's are just about 150 miles away from me, so they (bees) are adapted pretty well for my area.

BeeWeaver sells survivor queens cross bred with the remnants of their old bee lines and the VSH queens out of the LA bee lab.....with no treatments since 2001. RWeaver still sells many lines of queens.